[geeks] FSCKing screws...

[Lionel Peterson]

Wow, it pays to spend money on cases...

I went ghetto, spending $25 on a new ATX case, and the top and side of
the case are welded in-place, and the tray the MB screws on to is
welded on as well, with three oval shapped cutouts (I assume to provide
rigidity???).

After removing the MB, the screw was under the MB tray, but I could not
get at it, so I took packing tape (clear mylar, 2" wide) and covered
each of the three holes... This system will have a loose screw forever.

Now, what would be a fitting name for it? I was going to call them
TopDog1 and TopDog2, after the MB "code/internal" name...

Maybe Carly, after Ms. Fiorina? ;^)

--- Mike Hebel <nimitz at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> LOL!  Lionel has just experienced screw problem number 187.
> 
> Been there - just did that with my Dad's new Via C3 system.
> 
> Mike Hebel
> 
> Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > So, I'm sitting here, screwing together the first of my two Ultra
> AXe
> > motherboard systems (the $99 UltraSPARC MBs from a while ago), and
> as I
> > put the final screw in the CD-ROM drive, it pops out of the hole
> and
> > disappears into the case...
> > 
> > After a vigorous round of shaking, inverting, and cursing, no screw
> > emerges from the system.
> > 
> > Obviously it is stuck under the MB, waiting to ground out the CPU
> and
> > kill the board.
> > 
> > Damn, must remove the MB and make sure...
> > 
> > This blows...
> > 
> > =====
> > Lionel
> > 
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> > programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
> > Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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